WOW! AS NIGERIA STEPED UP ON FIFA RANKING

Only few could have doubted this improvement of Nigeria performance on the FIFA scale of monthly rankings. Nigeria's rating was stepped up from what it used to be. The just concluded AFCON says a lot on this as you can find the rating and position below.

	Rnk	Team	Pts	+/- Pos
	1	Spain	1590	0
	2	Germany	1437	0
	3	Argentina	1281	0
	4	England	1160	2
	5	Italy	1157	-1
	6	Colombia	1129	-1
	6	Portugal	1129	1
	8	Netherlands	1108	0
	9	Croatia	1059	1
	10	Russia	1055	-1
	11	Greece	1020	0
	12	Côte d'Ivoire	999	2
	12	Ecuador	999	0
	14	Switzerland	993	-1
	15	Mexico	968	0
	16	Uruguay	950	0
	17	France	929	0
	18	Brazil	924	0
	19	Ghana	865	7
	20	Belgium	864	0
	21	Sweden	863	-2
	22	Denmark	825	1
	23	Chile	815	7
	24	Bosnia-Herzegovina	814	2
	25	Mali	813	0
	26	Czech Republic	797	3
	27	Norway	780	-3
	28	Japan	779	-7
	29	Montenegro	756	2
	30	Nigeria	747	22

31 Romania 744 2 32 USA 736 -4 33 Hungary 728 -1 34 Algeria 725 -12 35 Paraguay 681 0 36 Serbia 668 1 37 Australia 649 -1 38 Korea Republic 643 -4 39 Peru 634 4 39 Republic of Ireland 634 2 41 Turkey 616 -1 42 Panama 612 4 42 Tunisia 612 11 44 Bolivia 607 -3 45 Venezuela 599 10 46 Ukraine 597 -2 47 Zambia 591 -8 48 Bulgaria 590 2 49 Slovakia 589 -5 50 Haiti 584 -12 51 Central African Republic 581 0 51 Honduras 581 8 53 Costa Rica 577 13 54 Slovenia 573 -7 55 Burkina Faso 571 37 56 Jamaica 570 2 57 Uzbekistan 557 -1 58 Iran 543 2 59 Poland 528 -3 60 South Africa 525 25 61 Sierra Leone 517 1